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DOCUMENTING MARK TWAIN KEN BURNS, SUBJECT OF AN ODU PROFESSOR'S BOOK, DEBUTS HIS LATEST PROJECT TONIGHT ON PBS.(DAILY BREAK)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20020114
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Byline: LARRY BONKO

PASADENA, CALIF. -- Call it a happy coincidence. As Ken Burns launches ``Mark Twain'' tonight on PBS, Gary R. Edgerton's study of the New Englander who produced ``The Civil War,'' ``Baseball,'' ``Jazz'' and more than a dozen other riveting television documentaries is in a bookstore near you.

``No one has had a greater impact on rekindling America's ever-increasing interest in all things historical than Ken Burns. He is arguably the most recognizable and influential historian of his generation,'' says Old Dominion University professor Edgerton, author ...

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